One of the most important poems in the catalog for what it reveals about the speaker’s life before the Muse. Where “Double Tap” identified the moment of the lightning strike...
A poem whose deceptively casual surface conceals a careful argument about the nature of valuation. The opening question—how much is a pound of beautiful worth?—sounds like a riddle, and the...
A poem whose opening line could stand alone as one of the catalog’s most philosophically valuable contributions, and whose remaining lines are an exercise in disowning the line that earned...
One of the catalog’s most direct meditations on aging, and one of the rare poems where the speaker addresses the reader by generation. The structural reversal at “But,” is the...
A poem whose generosity carries a quiet ache underneath—a holiday message that wants to be uncomplicatedly warm but cannot help registering the speaker’s distance from the family visit it celebrates....
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